Bale Grazing at Treflach Farm
After a couple of days let up from the seemingly never-ending rain, we visited Treflach farm on the Welsh / Shropshire border on 8th March 2024, for a Pasture for Life (PfL) field day about bale grazing and overwintering strategies.
LEARN MOREOctober 20, 2020
Have you ever wondered what the true benefit of hedgerows, tree lines or flower rich margins are on your crop yield? As part of the EU-funded project Ecostack, I am looking into whether these landscape features are helping improve crop yield
September 25, 2020
As part of #OrganicSeptember campaign, Daylesford Organic have been running a ‘Future of Food’ series, featuring interviews with thought leaders in the food, ecology and agriculture industries.
September 24, 2020
Can you make land both a productive farm and also good for bumblebees? This is a question that has been occupying the minds of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the University of Exeter and landowners and managers round the Fowey Valley in Cornwall.
September 15, 2020
Ploughing has received bad press in some organic farming circles due to the higher fuel requirements and the fact that it buries soil organisms and green material at too great a depth. The perennial questions are: should we plough and if so how deep?
August 26, 2020
There is huge potential for farmers to be incentivised and rewarded for protecting and sequestering carbon in their soils. Government initiatives and carbon offsetting schemes in the private sector provide promising funding avenues for farmers who adopt agroecological practices that promote soil health and increase soil carbon.
August 17, 2020
Mulching trees is one great way to give them a good start and ensure they remain alive. Traditionally mulches have been seen to provide two main benefits; weed control, moisture retention. My belief is that in the medium term improving the soil health around a tree is also a crucial component.
August 10, 2020
Agricology has been awarded a DEFRA ELM Test in partnership with the University of Reading to research how effective videos and podcasts are as tools to learn about farming practices. As part of this study we are conducting a survey for farmers to understand their preferences and experiences of using these tools.
July 15, 2020
Why do we eat lamb, throw away wool and wear plastic? Why are food and fibre systems not generally considered within the same systems and conversations? When they are, why are fibres generally only considered by-products of food production?
June 17, 2020
Jez Taylor, head of the diverse Daylesford market garden, talks to us about managing the greenfly on the roses they supply to the florists.
June 11, 2020
Wildflower meadows are an intrinsic part of our natural heritage and have been in decline over the last century. The rich flora and fauna provide an abundance of colour, a buzz of insects, and support a multitude of native species from butterflies to migrating birds and other wildlife.
June 10, 2020
'Our solutions are in nature' - a concept at the core of sustainable farming practices and the theme of 2020's UN International Day for Biodiversity. We are all dependent on healthy, vibrant ecosystems, and farming with nature that uses practices to give back to the land for future generations is part of this solution.
June 8, 2020
Do you use 'alternatives' to conventional drugs and other interventions to keep your livestock healthy? There are many farmers - conventional, organic and those in-between - successfully reducing or using low levels of antibiotics and they are using many different methods. But some of these are not getting the recognition they deserve.